May 23 2012

7:45 PM

Watch: Toms on coming back to Colonial

Defending champion David Toms talks about his return to the
Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM

FORT WORTH, Texas -- As defending champion of the Crowne Plaza
Invitational at Colonial, David Toms has more responsibilities than
anybody else in the field. A few more interviews. Wednesday's
Champion's dinner. A bigger pool of well-wishers. That sort of
thing

He's glad to do it. But he'll also be glad when Thursday's first
round begins and he can focus all his attention of defending his
title.

"It's been fun," he said. "I see a lot of friendly faces and
people that are involved with the tournament and so forth.

"To be quite honest, I'm ready to get started, ready to hit that
first tee shot on Thursday morning and put everything else aside
and go play golf."

Toms did not get any practice time on the course until
Wednesday. He was trying to fit it into his busy schedule on
Tuesday but opted to wait one more day -- in part because of the
weather conditions.

"It was calm, totally calm," Toms said about Tuesday. "And I
knew today it was going to be blowing, and I think tomorrow as
well. So I didn't really want to go out there and see a golf course
that I wasn't going to see by the time I was ready for the gun to
go off."

In his 22 TOUR starts since last year's win at Colonial, Toms
has five top-10s. His last one came two weeks ago at THE PLAYERS
Championship, when he finished tied for 10th. A year ago, he lost
in a playoff at THE PLAYERS, and followed the week later by winning
in Fort Worth.

"Obviously I haven't had a result this year that I would like,"
Toms said. "But that's the way golf is. It kind of goes in
cycles.

"I'm hoping to build upon what I've done the last couple of
tournaments and get myself into position. That's really what it's
all about -- having a chance on Sunday."